And as one of those taxpayers, I am most certainly paying for it anyway.
I'm certainly in favor of abolishing medicare and social security as long as I can get my previously-confiscated premiums (and those paid on my behalf by my employer) back, with interest.
None of this would be a problem if these programs were voluntary and self-sustaining entities.
You think there's a pile of money just sitting around the treasury with your name on it? News flash: the premiums you gave the government are long spent and gone. There is no getting that money back. The only thing you're going to "get back" is what the government takes from others on your behalf. Kids who aren't even old enough to work yet will someday be paying you what you think they "owe" you. That's why these welfare programs never end. Each generation has no qualms about voting for the "right" to sponge off the next, and on and on it goes.